Contaminated Zones

The global conflict known as The Fall left the planet ruined and damaged in many ways. Aside from the overt destruction of 26.2 million square acres of land - roughly half of Earth's total land area, much of this was left contaminated by nuclear, biological or experimental weapons.

Radiation Contamination
The East and West coasts were the hardest hit by this - massive population centers were the primary targets of the nuclear weapons launched by the 3rd World Coalition in the final days of The Fall.

Only San Francisco escaped nuclear holocaust, mostly due to the fact that US armed forces stationed at Obama AFB were the ones controlling the Star Wars Defense system. Being comprised of locals or soldiers who had family in the area, and knowing that they couldn't stop every warhead, the soldiers ignored Washington's orders and focused their efforts on defending San Francisco. Although successful, San Francisco was eventually destroyed as part of The Retribution.

Chemical Weapons
All belligerents who participated in The Fall employed their full arsenals, and this included chemical weapons. Directly responsible for killing over 2 billion people, the poison attacks left water tables contaminated and also resulted in an extinction of entire avian, amphibian, reptilian, mammalian and ichthyian populations.

Bio-Weapons
The advanced armies of the world employed bio-weapons as a last-ditch effort to commit genocide, attempting to completely destroying their enemies before they were themselves, destroyed. Efficient and successful, these bio-weapons moved quickly to kill, deform and neuter the enemy.

In rare cases, they would have an unexpected impact on local animal populations.

Experimental Weapons
Near the end of The Fall, The advanced nations unleashed their experimental weapons. A myriad of horrors, some of them are still out there and working ...